Google At Its beginnings!

[stoned]

Hehehe, who would have thought few years later they would be the no. 1 search engine?

http://web.archive.org/web/19990208004515/google.stanford.edu/

Take a look at their backend hardware too

http://web.archive.org/web/19990209043945/google.stanford.edu/googlehardware.html

Crazy huh?

 

[JumpingJack]

1) Archive.org sucks majorly! 15 minutes to load a page... it's not an archive, it's a slowwwwwchive (thank you, thank you very much).

2) For some reason I thought of the song "Stone the crows" from Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor dreamcoat when reading this. Then I started singing it: "Anyone from anywhere can make it if they get a lucky break!"

3) I then realized that they didn't get a lucky break... damn Stanford over-achievers!

4) The Police then showed up at my door and told me the neighbors had complained, and proceeded to ask me why I was naked and draped in a multicolored bed sheet (with the colors mostly coming from ketchup and tostito stains)

And it's only noon! Ahh, the possibilities.

 

[stoned]

haha

 

[HardwareGeeks]

wow not much in design has changed. I like the legos on the server.

 

[darrenl]

Looks weird lol

 

[Leading Names]

LOL, if you dig a bit deeper in the archive you also find this…

Sergey Brin in Drag! (Taken 1996)

http://web.archive.org/web/20021030152640/www-db.stanford.edu/~sergey/photos/drag96.jpg

Well worth a look!

- Rob

 

[darrenl]

Thats hilarious!

 

[Nexus]

LOL, if you dig a bit deeper in the archive you also find this…
Sergey Brin in Drag! (Taken 1996)
http://web.archive.org/web/20021030152640/www-db.stanford.edu/~sergey/photos/drag96.jpg
Well worth a look!

That Wachowski brother (of Matrix fame) and now Sergey? Is nothing sacred??? :-D He looks like he's having a little too much fun...

~ Nexus

 

[GodBlessYou]

I think that is almost inspirational. Thanks for those pics. See what someone can do??

 

[HardwareGeeks]

LOL, if you dig a bit deeper in the archive you also find this…

Sergey Brin in Drag! (Taken 1996)

http://web.archive.org/web/20021030152640/www-db.stanford.edu/~sergey/photos/drag96.jpg

Well worth a look!

- Rob

I think I look better in a dress then he does.

 

[GodBlessYou]

oh gosh, I missed that! How on earth did you find that?

 

[clemzonguy]

Google was attractive because it had a clean look and was really the only thing around to use to come up with ANY usefull search results. It was simply a matter of being the only kid on the block. I used altavista, lycos, and a few others for a while but no more. No one expected to find we were actually supporting a company. I thought all along it was a non-profit project. Boy was I fooled.

 

[GodBlessYou]

lol, stock and everything now. Seems like almost all of the search engines are doing something that makes it non profit.

 

[illphil]

With graphic skills like that they could conquer any other search engine!

 

[bellweather]

cool

 

[Nexus]

Google was attractive because it had a clean look and was really the only thing around to use to come up with ANY usefull search results. It was simply a matter of being the only kid on the block. I used altavista, lycos, and a few others for a while but no more. No one expected to find we were actually supporting a company. I thought all along it was a non-profit project. Boy was I fooled.

But does it really matter? I get the impression you're one of those people that go to click links, and if upon rolling over it, you see affiliate code... you find some other way to navigate to the site you were interested in. I don't know... I think if you do good work, you get paid. I'm amazed at the great stuff I see at google, and astonished that all these years later, their homepage remains largely unchanged.

YAHOO!, now
http://www.yahoo.com/ - YAHOO, now

YAHOO!, Oct, 17 2000
http://web.archive.org/web/20001017100006/http://www.yahoo.com/

YAHOO!, Oct, 15 1997
http://web.archive.org/web/19971015224053/http://www1.yahoo.com/

YAHOO!, Oct, 17 1996
http://web.archive.org/web/19961017235908/http://www2.yahoo.com/

I mean, look at that 1996 page! No revenue stream there...! Now llok at it... whatever happened to "simpler" is "better"?

--But, if people aren't making money, I tend to have strong suspicions they'll eventually dissappear.

~ Nexus

 

[furca]

Nice job guys, fun to reflect on our recent past

 

[stoned]

Yeah nice job.

 

[GodBlessYou]

Thanks for the yahoo one too. Got any others? Its very fun to see what it was like

 

[cyphix]

Heh.. very interesting!